Pear Tree Designs - Challenge 37 One Colour

Hi everyone,

Welcome to challenge 37 - One colour, over at Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog!

For this challenge we would like you to create a card/project that consists of using one colour only.
It can be different shades of that certain colour you use, for example if your colour was blue, you can use light blue, dark blue, baby blue, pale blue etc.....you can use the odd bit of white, but as long as we know you are only using one colour.



Here are my DT cards for this weeks challenge:

 

I decided to use Black as my main colour on this one card and Brown on the other. I have done a 3 layer pyramage for the picture which I just printed off in black/brown and white. I thought it was lovely enough to leave plain. It is such a beautiful image. I just loved working with it!

We are sponsored by CardMadFairy's Creations this week and she has given us some lovely images to work with, so thanks for that Jenni!

This weeks lucky winner will get 5 x digital images of your choice!

Please send your enteries in by Sunday at 4pm.

Look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Lou x

Pear Tree Designs - Challenge 36 - VALENTINES!!

Hi everyone,

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!!

Hope you have all been spoilt and had a lovely surprise from your other halves!  My lovely Fiance made me a lovely photocard and also bought me a new Xbox Kinect game - Zumba.  I have wanted it for ages, as I go to a Zumba/Aerobics class each week, and have really got into it, and it's just such a good work out, especially for the ol' belly area!!  Thanks you Mark, and I love you loads!!   He is about to take me out to a lovely Italian in the next town to us for lunch, and i'm starving, so can't wait!!

Anyway, back to what this post is really about - Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog latest challenge - Valentines!

This should be yet another easy topic for you all to enter into, as I am sure most of you will have made the other halves a card or two (if they were lucky!) or even a special present!!

Please note it can be anything to do with love/valentines only!


Here is my DT card:

I made this card using some lush freebie pack from one of my many card magazines!  I am not sure which one though - sorry!  It was lovely to work with and I added some Glossy Accents to it as well to make it stand out a bit more!

This week we are sponsored by One Stop Card Crafts and they will be giving away a brilliant prize to the lucky winner!!  Please head over to the Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog to see whats on offer.

Have a good week all, and look forward to seeing all your lovely valentine cards/projects this week!

Pear Tree Design - Challenge 35

Hi everyone,

Another week has passed, very quickly!!! 
Over at Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog, Challenge 35 is up and running and this week it's 'Free For All'!! Everyones favourite  - I know!  So the DT are expecting many enteries this week!!

Our sponsor, Crafty Sentiments Designs very kindly gave us a few images to choose from to use on our projects this week, so thank you very much for those!

Here is my DT Card:

I just love my Martha Stewart Butterfly and stamps punch!! They are so cute!

Please remember ONLY 2 ENTRIES PER BLOG PER PERSON!  Anyone trying to enter more than 2 entries will be disqualified from the challenge altogether.

For a chance to have a extra entry (3rd one) and extra chance to win, go over to our sponsor's website, purchase one of their images and use it on your card(s) you are entering, as simple as that!

The lucky winner can choose 3 x digital images from Crafty Sentiments Designs store!

Have fun everyone, and make sure all your enteries are in by Sunday at 4pm!

Good luck,

Pear Tree Designs Challenge 34 - Flowers!

Hi everyone,

Been having issues with uploading pictures since yesterday....figured out why now though!  It was me being a fool!

So, nice flowery challenge this week over at Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog and here is my DT card:

This week we would like you to add flowers to your card/project, it can be 1, 2 or more as long there is some flowers added to your card/project!  PLEASE DO NOT ADD MORE THAN 2 CARDS/PROJECTS PER CHALLENGE - Thankyou!

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More shop is full of digital images and papers, perfect for every crafter! They have loads of lovely images and the DT were lucky enough to have a play with a few for the challenge!  Thanks very much Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and More !

Have fun everyone, and i'm looking forward to seeing all your cards/projects.

Good luck!

 

Pear Tree Designs Challenge 33 - Blue

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Challenge 33 - 'Blue'

This week would like you to produce a card/project which is blue, the card/project can have a bit of other colour on it, but majority of it needs to be 'Blue'. Please note we are getting alot of people not following the rules and the challenge theme, so please make sure you understand before submitting your entry! One rule in particular that keeps being broken is not submitting more than 2 cards per challenge.  Your entries will be deleted if this happens, so really what is the point? Only 2 cards per blog please! Thankyou!! x

 

Here is my DT card:

 
 

We are sponsored by CardMadFairy's Creations this week and they are giving the winner:

3 x Digital images of your choice

Good luck everyone, and I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

 

Pear Tree Designs - Challenge 32!!

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the late post, totally forgot...oops!!  My excuse being that I am working on my wedding website/wedding stationary and basically in my own weddingy world! ahh!

So, this week it is everyones favourite challenge -  free for all!!!!!!! So, basically,  you can submit anything you like!


Please note we are only allowing max 2 entries per blog!  Don't be greedy now!  People submitting more than 2 entries will be removed altogether.

We are being sponsored this week by One Stop Card Crafts, who are offering £10 worth of Ranger Stickles.

Here is my DT entry for this weeks challenge:

If you would like to enter then please follow the rules on our sidebar over at Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog  and follow the challenge that has been set.

Please add your card/project to your blog and link it back to the challenge blog using the Mr Linky.
If you do not have a blog then you can still enter, just email your entry!

Good luck everyone!

Pear Tree Designs Challenge 31 - We are Back!

Good Afternoon everyone and a HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all!

Over at Pear Tree Designs Challenge Blog we have challenge 31 well on it's way, with a couple of enteries already! Great!

Before I get into the challenge, I just wanted to welcome my new fellow DT memebers, Katrina and Lou who were chosen from the DT call just before Christmas.  Welcome girls, and looking forward to working with you!! xx

So, our first challenge of the year will be the theme 'circles', and we would like you to produce a card/project that consists of circles within your card/project. Easy peasy I would have thought!!

Here is my DT card for this weeks challenge:

I got this decoupage set free with one of the many magazines I supscribe to.  Possibly Papercraft Essentials!?  I thought it was really cute, and I am just loving these 'elegant square' shaped cards right now.  I really think they add something special to the overall design of the card.  What do you think?

Donna will be personally sponsoring this challenge for this week,  and she will be giving the lucky winner a chance to win a  'GOODY BAG'!! A nice surprise then!  So what are you waiting for?  Enter our challenge before 4pm this Sunday for the chance to win!!

I can finally announce my fab news!

As some of you will know, I have been on the Rosemary Conley Diet trying to get down to my ideal weight, which was 5 stones lighter! It took me 18 months and I finally managed it in July, so I decided to apply for a Slimmer of the Year 2011 competition, that I saw being run in the magazine by Rosemary Conley.  I never thought in a million years I would get anywhere (which was probably part of the madness of me applying) but in October, while on holiday in Ibiza, I found out that I got through, along with 21 other men and women out of 100's of applications, and that I had to go collect my award THE DAY AFTER my holiday!! Stressed!!!  I had to also buy a few new outfits for photographs, so as soon as I got home from the airport, fortunately in the morning, I rushed to the shops!!

I had a good day up in Leicester, where the Rosemary Conley 'headquarters' are, and had my hair and make-up done, due to having photographs for promotional work, and various interviews!!

Anyway, I have officially been crowned Regional Slimmer of the Year 2011, and I am so proud of myself (for once!)  I feel like a totally different person, and on looking at old photos of myself, it's like looking at a stranger, and one I never intend to meet!  I will not ever go back to the 'old me'.

This is what I used to look like:

And this is the new me, in my 'Marketing' photo for Rosemary Conley in my region:

I have had a few interviews, one being with Rosemary Conley , and the other with my local radio station, Heart FM,  and they played my interview last Thursday afternoon, but I missed it, as I was told it would be the morning, as it was pre-recorded! Ugh!  But they have put something about me on there website.  So if you want to have a read of my story, take a look.

 Tomorrow I will see for the first time, printed leaflets with the above picture on which have been posted all around my region (not at all embarrassing...! :oS) and my class instructor has asked me to post some out too, since I always do them for her! Oh dear!  I was hoping i'd get out of it. I was wrong!

Please take a look at the overall 10 Slimmers of the Year 2011, if you need lots of inspiration, as some of these people have lost over 10 stone in a year!! OMG!! It can be done!

 They were amazing people to meet, and so so lovely, as were the other 10  Regional Slimmers who all had amazing stories of there weight battle journey.

Even More Polar Bear Cuteness....!

Well, after staying up rather late last night finishing off Christmas cards for people I was supposed to be seeing today, with a very sore neck, the stupid snow has ruined my plans!!!  My family are unable to drive up to see Mark and I and go out for our yummy early Christmas lunch down at the local restaurant!  I am SO disappointed! :o(!  Never mind.  I just hope it doesn't happen next weekend when we are due to go down South, otherwise, Christmas will officially be ruined for us!  At least we have each other.  But for me Christmas is about spending time with all of those you love.

Anyway, here are the 2 cards I made last night.  They will have to wait to be given to the recipients on Christmas Day!

Can't wait to make some more later on!! Will cheer me up.

Thanks for popping over and please leave a comment as I love reading them! :o)

Polar Bear Cuteness!

Hi everyone,

I am so pleased with my latest Christmas card that I have made using Prairie Fairy Designs - A Mother's Love!!
I have bought quite a few images from the store, and they are just so wonderful to work with. 

I have used Stamp 'n' Bond with White Flock on the Polar Bears, so they are lovely and fluffy! I have also added Glitter Glue to the snow which I shadowed with my Arctic Blue Pro Marker.  It's much more sparkley than in the picture!

I also used my Promarkers to shadow the fur with grey, and to give Mummy and Baby Bear rosie cheeks, I used my Blush Promarker. White Sukura pen is on the noses and paw to make them look shiny.  I now wish I had added Glossy Accent too, but I've given the card to the recepients now! I'll do it on the next one for Marks family.

As I haven't used my Hot Foil Print Wizzard for a while, I decided to get that out and personalise the cards.  I think it makes the card even more special.

Thanks for looking, and i'd love to hear what you think of my card.

Merry Christmas!